6,000 Cops Feployed For Kapu Satyagraha In East Godavari

The yatra commences from January 25 demanding for an inclusion of Kapus in the reservation list.

Police force deployed in view of the Kapu leader Mudragada Padmanabham’s Padayatra on January 25, in P. Gannavaram of East Godavari on Monday.

Kakinada: There is heavy police deployment in the East Godavari as Kapu Joint Action Committee (JAC) state convener Mudragada Padmanabham will take up the padayatra named ‘Kapu Satyagraha Yatra’ from Ravulapalem in Konaseema area. Yatra commences from January 25 demanding for the inclusion of Kapus in the reservation list.

According to the police sources, there is 5,800 police personnel from various departments deployed for preventing the untoward incidents, APSP battalion personnel, Armed Reserve Forces, Civil Police, 7 teams of Anti-Naxal Squad, Border Security Force and others were deployed to the district.

Anti-Rapid Action Force personnel have come to the district from Telangana state.

The government has provided Vajra vehicles which are fitted with water, cranes, front guards & others for the protection of the personnel and dispersing of the mob.

Sources said that there are possibilities that the Mudragada can be kept under house arrest at his residence in Kirlampudi village, where nearly 3,000 personnel are deployed.

Mudragada said he would start from Kirlampudi on Tuesday evening and stay at the Ravulapalem on the night and commence his padayatra from Ravulaplem in the morning hours of January 25.

Sources said that the police wanted to place a Mudragada under house arrest on Sunday when he came to Kakinada. But in the last minute, they withdrew their strategy, it is learned. Meanwhile, Mudragada Padmanabham set up CC Camera system including moving cameras with an underground cable network to keep an eye on the movements of the police or the visitors outside his residence at Kirlampudi.

The police superintendent of police M.Ravi Prakash said, Mudragada did not apply for permission and they would not allow for padayatra. But Mudragada said that he would not obtain any permission for his agitation. The Additional Superintendent of Police Mr.AR Damodar has been deployed at the Ravulpalem for supervising the law and order situation.